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Reading the graphic surface : The presence of the book in prose fiction
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- READING THE GRAPHIC SURFACE: THE PRESENCE OF THE BOOK IN PROSE FICTION; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: Reading the graphic surface; Convention, redundancy, noise; Levels, space, metatexts; Why defamiliarisation is not enough; CHAPTER 2: The presence of the book; The manuscript is not the real work; Fixity; Uniformity and individual reading; The book as codex form; CHAPTER 3: The graphic surface in theory; The idealised text; The linguistic model; Writing; Textual voice.
- CHAPTER 4: Mimesis and the graphic surface: a critical blindspotFiction, representation and mimesis; The novel and mimesis; Mimesis and postmodern criticism; The world and the book; A brief historical overview; CHAPTER 5: 'If the gentle compositor would be so friendly': Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Watt; Murphy (1938); Watt (1953); CHAPTER 6: 'The technological fact of the book': B.S. Johnson; Travelling People (1963); Albert Angelo (1964); The Unfortunates (1969); CHAPTER 7: 'Some languages are more visible than others': Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru; Thru (1975).
- CHAPTER 8: Alasdair Gray: Maker of booksLanark: A Life in Four Books (1981); CONCLUSION; FURTHER READING; INDEX; Bray, Joe, Handley, Miriam and Henry, Anne C. (eds) (2000) Ma(r)king the Text: The Presentation of Meaningon the Literary Page, Aldershot: AshgateCraig, Cairns (1999) The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination, Edinburgh:Edinburgh University PressMcGann, Jerome (1983) A Critique of Modern Textual Criticism, Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Johnson.